Prime Minister Narendra Modi handpicked a trusted bureaucrat, little known outside India’s financial circles, to spearhead a radical move to abolish 86 percent of the country’s cash overnight and take aim at the huge shadow economy. Hasmukh Adhia, the bureaucrat, and five others privy to the plan were sworn to ... Read More »
“[T]he Obama administration, in education laid the groundwork for Trump and Betsy DeVos because they were big supporters of charter schools . . . [C]harter schools are the first step toward full privatization.” – Diane Ravitch, Democracy Now, December 1, 2016 If there is one thing Democrats and Republicans agreed ... Read More »
K. A Glasgow shopping centre that inspired a move within airport retail design to match the best of domestic retail has been named Scotland’s best building of the past 100 years. The Princes Square Shopping Centre, transformed in 1987 by architects Hugh Martin & Partners, was the first flagship project ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, spoke at a 2001 conference with her husband, Dick, about using educational philanthropy to promote their conservative Christian worldview to children. The conference was hosted by The Gathering, a group of elite Christian philanthropists. Researcher Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the website Talk To ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, spoke at a 2001 conference with her husband, Dick, about using educational philanthropy to promote their conservative Christian worldview to children. The conference was hosted by The Gathering, a group of elite Christian philanthropists. Researcher Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the website Talk To ... Read More »
President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan agree that repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with some other health insurance system is a top priority. But they disagree on whether overhauling Medicare should be part of that plan. Medicare is the government-run health system for people aged ... Read More »
The fight to get accepted into college – particularly a top-notch college – is fierce, to say the least. In the U.S., after-school shops like Sylvan, Kaplan and The Princeton Review capitalize on families’ desires for their children to succeed, offering prep programs for Advanced Placement tests, SATs and then some. ... Read More »
In my prior post, Transferring Your Business To Family? First, Create A Written Roadmap, I suggested that successful transfers of family businesses share five critical elements. I’ve discussed the first, which is a written road map that (1) has the parent/owner’s financial security as its ultimate destination and (2) relies ... Read More »
KOCHI: Kandukuri Vinoda, a home-maker in Telangana, was one of the early victims of demonetisation drive as she committed suicide. She had Rs 54 lakh cash after selling land. There is a co-relation between real estate transactions and demonetisation. The former being often high-value ones, the customer will always be ... Read More »
Views of mountains and sea are the most striking feature of a bungalow hidden near the end of a narrow road off Killiney Hill Road, close to the Druid’s Chair pub in Killiney village. Built in the 1970s, The Moorings was revamped in 2006 when a curved sunroom was added ... Read More »
Dear Friends, Like you, my organization is deeply troubled by widespread reports of racially charged bullying, intimidation and harassment that have been happening in Michigan public schools. Racially – charged chants, immigrant children breaking down in tears at school … This is not what public education stands for in our ... Read More »
President-elect Donald Trump responded to renewed controversy surrounding his business ties in a Tuesday interview with The New York Times, insisting “the president can’t have a conflict of interest” as he faces scrutiny over a series of questionable interactions. Tweets from Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were ... Read More »
